Clothes-drier attachment for boilers.



P. WALTHBR.

CLOTHES mum ATTACHMENT r011 BOILERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1911.

Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

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P. WALTHBR; CLOTHES DRIER ATTACHMENT FOR BOILERS. APPLICATION IILBD my 12, 1911.

Patnted Nov. 26, 1912.

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? affoi'nj- PAUL WALTHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-DRIER, ATTACHMENT FOR BOILERS. V

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

Application filed May 12, 1911. Serial No. 626,816.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL WALTHER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at New York, borough of Brooklyn, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Drier Attachments for Boilers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes drier attachmentsfor boilers such as are used in houses and flats, and the main object of the same is to provide a clothes-drier which may be attached to a boiler so that the heat radiated from the boiler may be utilized to facilitate drying. of clothes, etc.

A further object of the invention is to provide a clothes drier which may be attached to a kitchen boiler, whereby the clothes-drier occupies a small space and is not in the way, which is of considerable importance in the small quarters of flats.

Further objects of the invention are to provide a practical, economical and efficient clothes-drier attachment for kitchen boilers, and which can be placed-on the market at a comparatively small price.

My invention consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts to be hereinafter described and then pointed out in the claims with reference to the accompanying drawings showing a desirable embodiment of the invention, and in which.

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a kitchen boiler showing my improved clothes-drier applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 22, Fig. 1, showing the hanger portions of the drier adjusted to closed position when not in use; Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the hanger portions in position for use; Fig. 4 is a broken detail view of a clothes drierstrap enlarged to more fully illustrate the hanger supporting ears; and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a hanger arm such as preferably used.

Referring to the drawings, the kitchen boiler 1 may be of any suitable-construetion as it does not form any part of the present invention excepting in so far as it furnishes a supporting and heating means for the drier 2 which is applied thereto. Preferably, the drier 2 issupported at the upper part or top of the boiler so that the greatest heat is utilized.

The preferable form of clothes-drier attachment comprises a metallic strap 3 which is of such length that when the ends thereof are connected in a suitable manner, an annular frame is provided to fit around the boiler. Preferably, the ends of the strap 3 are adjustably connected so as to provide an adjustable strap which may fit differentsizes of boilers. One way of doing this is to connect the ends of the strap by means of a hook member 4 which is provided with a screw threaded shank 5 adapted to pass through a lug 6 arranged transversely of one end of said strap and standing at right angles to the strap, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The threaded portion 5 receives a thumb nut or thelike? for adjusting the hook member'within said lug 6. The unthreaded end of said hook member is provided with a hook 8 which is adapted to engage in a pair of perforated ears 99 located at that end of the strap opposite to the transverse lug 6. It will be seen that when the hook member is applied with its hook in engagement with'the ears 9 and its threaded portion passing through lug 6, that the strap 3 may be adjusted by turning the thumb nut 7 in one direction of the other for the purpose of fitting thestrap as an annular frame to the particular boiler to which it is to be applied. In other words, the hook member 4 or the like provides means for securing the ends of the strap together and for adjusting the inner circumference of the annular frame to fit the periphery of different sizes of boilers. In additionto the pair of perforated ears 9 there is also a series of similar pairs of ears 9 9 which extend along the outer surface of the strap and are preferably spaced at approximately equal distances apart. Supported by said perforated'ears 9 are clothes hangers 10 and 12. There is preferably a pair of clothes hangers 10' composed preferably of wire, each of such hangers being bent and bowed into shape so as to form bows and having a span of-a length to extend at least half around the frame. 10-10, the ends of the same are turned out laterally from the bows to form turned-out ends 11 at the ends of the bows, said turnedout ends being adapted to be inserted in appropriate pairs of perforated ears 9-9 of the strap. The. bowed and flexible hangers 10 are thereby supported in horizontal position, and by reason of their flexibility each may be set closely in closed position to the strap 3, or the said hangers may be set into open position by disengaging one end 11 of Forsupporting the bowed hangers the hanger from the strap and engaging the same with other ears 99 nearer to the other end of the hanger, thereby setting the said hanger into bowed-out open horizontal position so that each hanger may receive any suitable clothing or the like which may be hung thereon and dried quickly by reason preferably in the form of an arm of wire, it

j bowed hangers bowed hanger is set to closed position quite close to the supporting strap. The closed position of the bowed hangers is clearly shown in Fig. 2.

In addition to the described bowed hangers, other forms of hangers such as 12 before referred to may be used, these being supported between the two bowed hangers. For supporting each hanger 12 which is is provided at its inner end with an outturned portion 12 and a parallel reverse turn hook portion 12 which may be engaged in the perforations of a pair of ears 9-9 located between the bowed hangers. There maybe as many of these arm. hangers 12 as there are pairs of lugs between the bowed hangers when the latter are adjusted to support clothes. The bowed hangers are of such capacity as to support clothes of large size,

- fwhile the arm hangers are well adapted for supporting smaller articles.

The described clothes-drier attachment for boilers occupies a small space when shipped, and a number of them may be ship ed in a comparatively small package, whi e whenthe clothes-drier is in position either out of use or in use, 1t 1s not in the way, and furadjusted position of the nishes a very convenient means for rapidly drying clothes.

What I claim as new is 1. In a clothes drier attachment for boilers, the combination of a strap, means for securing the ends of the'strap together to form an annular frame, flexible bowed hangers, and means for securing the ends of each of said hangers to said strap at variable distances apart and. for supporting said hangers in position on said strap.

2. In a clothes drier attachment for boilers, the combination of a strap forming a frame and provided with a series of perforated ears spaced along the length there of, means separate from said ears for securing the ends of the strap together, and flexible bowed hangers provided with out-turned ends eachhaving a variable span and adapted for insertion in said ears at at least three points along the length of said strap.

3. In a clothes drler attachment for boil-\ ers, the combination of a strap, forming a frame and provided with a series of perforated ears spaced along the length thereof, means separate from said ears for securing the ends of the strap together, and flexible bowed hangers each having a span of a length to extend atleast half around said frame provided with out-turned ends adapted for insertion in said ears at at least three points along the length of said strap.

4. The combination with an upright boiler, of a clothes drier attachment thereon comprising an annular frame fitting said boiler, flexible adjustable hangers adapted to be supported by said frame, and means for securing the ends of each of said hangers to said frame at variable distances apart and for supporting said hangers in position on said frame.

PAUL WALTHER. I Witnesses:

BEATRICE Mnwrs, Gno. L. WHEELOGK. 

